Stanhope
Forbes
was born in
1857. He trained at the Royal Academy School
and began exhibiting there in 1885. The founder of the Newlyn
School, a group of painters who worked in the Newlyn fishing
village in Cornwall.
Forbes, who became an RA in 1910, is only known to have produced one
painting as an official war artist. This was WRNS
Ratings Sail-making (1918), a scene on board HMS Essex
in Devonport. Stanhope Forbes died in
1947.
Stanhope Forbes, WRNS Ratings Sail-making (1918)
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